YOURSAY ‘Declaration should be to voters who voted you in, not to 'Ali Baba'.’

Rafizi: Umno's 'Oxford' fears public scrutiny

Lone_Star: Come on Sports and Youth Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (KJ), show Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli how squeaky clean you are. What's there to hide?

We all came into this world in our birthday suit and will leave the same way. Whatever we have now is held in trust and we cannot take it along when we finally go.

Rupert16: I can bet with my last dollar, no politician from Umno-BN will publicly declare their assets as Rafizi and the Penang state government have done. The reason for not doing so is pretty obvious to all and sundry.

Kit P: The old ‘world's richest son-in-law’ stories from 2003-2008 are coming back to haunt KJ. He needs to put a stop to these speculations by declaring what assets he owns, otherwise he will have difficulty in ‘reinventing’ his image.

If the income of a government official is RM100,000 and the lifestyle is RM1,000,000, it is straight away a prima facie case for corruption.

What is the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) waiting for? They set three ‘wild animals’ to rough up political aide Teoh Beng Hock over a RM2,000 invoice.

Pputeh: What is the use of Ali Baba asking his 40 thieves to declare their assets to him?

The declaration should be to the voters who voted you in, not to 'Ali Baba'. Get the drift, KJ? After all, you are supposed to be graduated from Oxford.

I Wonder?: Khairy, you are elected by the people and it's the people wanting you to declare your assets to them.

Why declare to someone who has a much bigger the stomach than you? You might just as well claim you have already declared it to your wife.

ONG: How to declare? Like many Umno people, he has never worked a day in his life other than being a politician. How to account for his wealth? How to subject themselves to public scrutiny?

Dont Just Talk: Every Malaysian knows that this former fourth floor man, during the time when his father-in-law Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was the fifth prime minister of Malaysia, when asked by former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad how an Oxford graduate could afford to raise millions to purchase substantial shares in a public-listed company, the question remained unanswered.

YB Rafizi, you could also become rich by joining the right party but your conscience did not permit you to do so and as a result you have to take a RM10 haircut and publicly declare your limited assets unlike the Oxford graduate, who declares his assets to PM Najib Abdul Razak, whose lifestyle is said to be equally questionable.

Abasir: Sewer rats are always afraid of bright light. Which is why they only emerge at night and never during the day. That is the same reason public scrutiny is anathema to Umno.

Zam: Generals AWOL from Anwar rallies

Ferdtan: Former information minister Zainuddin Maidin (Zam) has not only switched sides from Mahathir’s faction to Najib’s faction, he is now actively supporting the survival of Najib’s regime.

The faction that he once belonged to would be elated that the pressure is on Najib to resign, even if it is from the opposition.

Even Mahathir is sharing the same platform with Pakatan Rakyat in attacking the prime minister for his blunders in 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MBD).

However, we should not be too harsh with these Umno guys; Zam is no exception, he has the Umno DNA in which principles can be thrown away for the right incentive. Or is it that he fears prosecution for past follies as a former federal minister?

Odysseus: This guy is trying to bait the generals to the frontline. Then the police will have a reason to detain them. Leaders are not stupid.

Everyone can see that BN is showing their fear and cowardice openly. By the way, is he admitting that BN has been paying for the crowd?

Anonymous_3f6d: Be consistent, ex-minister. You were preaching “it is not our culture to demonstrate or organise rallies” and now you are asking, “where are the generals?”

Commentable: Zam, this is nothing but cheap tactics. Of course you would like to see all the top opposition leaders attending the rallies so that our ‘Ketua Twitter Negara’ is able to haul all of them into the slammer in one single swoop.

Nice try though but do use a bit more originality next time around.

SteveOh: Nelson Mandela was never framed as a sodomist and falsely portrayed in a sex video with a prostitute, and his persecutors were white supremacists.

Anwar Ibrahim was betrayed by friends and former political comrades and brother Muslims and members of his own race.

Mandela serves as an analogy and no one in his right mind expects a 100 percent similarity with Mandela, circumstances and all. One day in Anwar's cell could be equal to 100 days in Mandela's.

In a sense, Anwar is in a worse state than Mandela whom the world knew and supported as a political prisoner of conscience. Anwar is an outright political prisoner like Mandela but he carries the stigma of a trumped-up sodomy charge.

Do generals have to be in the thick of the battle these days? Zam has been watching too many old Chinese war movies.

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